Garment-hanger.



7 0 9 1 on 2 nm E h D E T N E. .T A P R @E G N A AH m n R A G APPLICATION FILED JULYZB, 1905.

' /NVENTDR JESSIE D. ALLAR-DIOE, OF PROVIDENCE,

RHODE ISLAND.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters'Patent.

Patented Feb. 26, 1907.

Application filed July 22, 1905. Serial No. 270.836.

To a, whom it .m/(ty concern:

'Be it known that I, J ESSIE D. ALLARDICE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Ithode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment- IIangers, of which the following is aspeciiication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Like reference-letters indicate like parts.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my imroved hanger for garments. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same as seen when separated from the hook. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the hook. Fig. 4 illustrates the use of my improved hanger for suspending garments from a rod which is supported by a cord passing-over a nail or hook on a picture molding of a room or a artment. Fig. 5 illustrates the use of said hanger when the same is supported upon a nail or hook which extends from a wall. Fig. 6 illustrates the use of said hanger for suspending garments from a strip of burlap or coarse canvas which is nailed or tacked to a wall.

My invention relates to able garment-hangers; and it consists of the novel construction an combination of several parts, as hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the drawings my improved hanger is shown in Fig. 7 form. It consists of two parts, each made of a single piece of hard-tempered wire. The bow A is made of a wire doubled at a to form a pin-catch and is twisted upon itself in the portions designated as b and c in Fig. 2, but with a round open ring at the center formed of the two semicircular bends, as shown in said figure. This wire has the two ends e and (Shown in Fig. 1.) The garment- 1 in its complete close contact of single piece of similar wire bent, as at g, to form two strands, which lie side by side in the upper portion of the hook, but'in the central or shank portion h are twisted closely, as best shown in Fig. 3. These wires are bent into enlarged circular coils, as shown at m, then closely againinto a short intermediatetwisted shank, as shown at 0, and then into enlarged circular coils, as shown at n, and the ends terminate as seen at p. The looped end 9 of said it ire is formed in a spatulate shape, thus making a fiat thrusting-point, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

The coils m. and n have a larger diameter than the ring (1 of the bow A; but by introducing the ends p of the hook D through the ring at and then by giving said hook a screwing motion the intermediate shank portion 0 of the hook is brought into said ring d. The coils m and a are then flattened by pliers or some other suitable tool, so as to bring them into position at ight angles with the shank 0 and into contact with the upper and lower surfaces of the ring d, as repiesented in Fig. 1, and the ends 1) of the wire are thus at the same time driven up to lie within the coils n, where they are concealed and are out of the way. As the diameter of the intermediate shank 0 is slightly less than the diameter of the aperture or opening of the ring at, said shank freely swivels in said ring, whiie the the flattened coils m and n with the said two surfaces of the ring (1 maintains the hook in the general right-angled position in relation to the bow A. (Seen in Fig. 1 Thus my improved garment-hanger comprises a pin portion similar in shape and function to a large safety-pin, but with a bow or back very strong and ri id, because of the twisting of a hook portion the two strands of wire and of attached to said pin portion end a is pointed and is adapted to engage l by a swivel-joint, which enables said hook with the pin-catch a. A portion of the end 0 of the wire is a cylindrical resilient shaft B, constituting the pin-tongue of the device. Intermediate the pin-tongue B and the portion c of the bow A is the spring-coil 0, made of asingle strand of the wire and in all respects like the usual spring-coil of the well-known safety pin. The end f of the wire is symmetrically bent to lie within and project into the coil of the spring C, as illustrated in Fig. 1, where it cannot do any harm nor be liable to become caught or entangled with any fabric or garment. The hook D is made of another l l l portion to turn, yet to maintain always a right-angled relation to the pin portion. is therefore possible for the hook to rotate on its shank 0 in the ring (1 so as to extend at a right angle with the plane of the pin portion A B, or in the same plane therewith, or in any desired intermediate plane.

In Figs. 4, 5, and 6 I illustrate methods of using this improved garment-hanger. In

' Fig. 4. is shown a picture-molding E, fastened to the wall of a room, as usual, and supporting a picture-hook F. A rod G is hung by a wire or cord H, which passes over ICC the hook F. On this rod my improved garwith said bow, and a hook having a shank 4o ment-hangers are placed in such positions as mounted in said ring and provided with may be desired. means adapted to prevent the longitudinal In Fig. 5 is shown a nail or hook I, extendl displacement of said shank from said ring ing from the wall of an apartment or other but allowing said shank to rotate in said ring. support. The hook D o my improved gar- 2. he improved garment-hanger herein 5 ment-hanger is seen engaged with said nail I described, consisting of the combination of a or hook. The pin B is represented as thrust single piece of wire formed in strands twisted twice through the band J of a garment K. to constitute a rigid bow with an intermedi- In Fig. 6 is shown a strip L of burlap or ate ring, a pin-catch, a pin-tongue, and a coarse canvas secured to the wall of a spring adapted to engage the end of the pin clothes-press or other apartment, or to the tongue with the pin-catch, said pin-catch, hook-strips, or to the door of the same by pin-tongue and spring being integral with nails or tacks 0c. Garments M and N are sussaid bow, and a hook having a shank mountpended by the hook D upon the burlap or ed in said ring and provided with coils which canvas strip L by thrusting the points 9 of are adapted to be in contact with the upper the hooks D through the coarse texture of and lower surfaces of said ring respectively. said strip. The garment M is represented in 3. The improved garment-han er herein Fig. 6 as supported on the pin B, thrust once described, consisting of the combination of a through the hem or band 0 the garment in a I bow of twisted wire with a central ring or aprection at a right angle thereto. The garerture, a pin-catch at one end of the bow, a ment N is shown as supported by two ofmy coil-spring at the opposite end of the bow improved hangers, the pin of each one of and a pin-tongue extending from said coilwhich hangers is thrust twice through the spring and engageable with said catch, allsaid parts being constructed of a single piece of wire, a hook having a shank which passes 6: and N shows the advantage of providing the loosely through said ring or aperture of the bow and provided with a U-shaped end and bow or back A. also with two parallel coils, said hook, shank, claim as anovel and useful invention and bent end and coils being made of a single desire to secure by Letters Patentpiece of wire, and said COllS being loosely in 1. he improved garment-hanger herein contact with the bow on the outer and inner described, consisting of the combination of a sides thereof, respectively.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses. termediate ring, a pin-catch, a pin-tongue, JESSIE D. ALLARDICE. and a spring adapted to engage the end of the l Witnesses: pin-tongue with the pin-catch, said pin- WARREN R. PERoE, catch, pin-tongue and spring being integral ANNIE E. PERCE. 

